Grid costs
You are paying for capacity you rarely use
Your grid charges are set by your highest peak, not by what you consume over the year. A few quarter hours set your bill for twelve months. Flatten those peaks and you structurally pay less — capacity problem or not.
Where the bill comes from
On a large-consumer connection you pay, among other things, for contracted transport capacity and for the highest measured monthly peak. Both are capacity charges: they track your peak, not your consumption. A single machine start or one cold morning can therefore set a bill that runs for the rest of the year.
A battery covers those peaks. Bring your peak down structurally and you can lower your contracted capacity — a saving that returns every month, with nothing changing in how you operate.
And when the grid needs you, you earn from it
A battery that is there anyway can do more than shave peaks. Through a biedplichtcontract — soon to be renamed a redispatch contract — you can offer your flexible capacity to the grid operator and receive a fixed availability fee, plus a payment whenever you are actually called on.
We treat that as upside, not as the foundation. The business case has to stand on the saving alone; whatever the grid pays on top is a bonus.
- Works without changing anything about your processes.
- The saving returns every month, not once.
- Buy or subscribe — buying often carries an EIA tax benefit.
- Optional income from congestion management.
Buy or subscribe
Two ways to get a battery
The engineering is identical; the difference is whose balance sheet the system sits on. Both can work — which is better for you depends on your capital position and your tax position.
As a service
We finance, install, manage and monitor the system. You pay a fixed monthly fee and keep your capital available for your own business. No residual-value risk, no maintenance budget.
- No upfront investment
- Fixed monthly fee
- We carry the technical risk
Buy it
You invest and you own it. Over the lifetime this is usually the lower cost per kWh, and the investment often qualifies for the Dutch EIA tax scheme. Design, installation and management still sit with us.
- Lowest lifetime cost
- Possible EIA tax benefit
- Management still ours
Curious what your peak is costing you?
Give the capacity check your contracted capacity and your highest peak and it works the saving out on the spot.